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...team compared the relative abundance of the two principal isotopes of carbon in each of the formation's many layers, they made an intriguing discovery. In the newer layers, those formed more recently than 3.3 billion years ago, carbon 12 and carbon 13 appeared in approximately the same ratio as they do in more modern deposits known to contain the fossilized remnants of plant life. But in the older layers, the ratios were radically different; they were similar to those in rocks that have not been exposed to living organisms...
...question of equal admissions finally becomes a simple one: are women as worthy of receiving an education as men or are they not? If Harvard agrees that they are, then there is no excuse for postponing the institution of a one-to-one ratio any longer. If Harvard decides that they are not, then the future of Harvard as a principled insititution is doomed...
...that Harvard must accept more women; to continue the present quota system is to maintain that one half of humanity is less worthy of receiving an education than the other. Although President Bok has agreed to increase the size of each Radcliffe class to 450--a 2.5 to 1 ratio--he has made no public commitment to equal admissions. In addition, Harvard lobbied against Rep. Edith Green's equal admissions bill in Congress last fall. Thus, though ostensibly improving the admission picture on behalf of women, actually, the Bok administration is holding the traditional Harvard line. Harvard has a duty...
OVER THE PAST year, the new Administration has publicized changes favorable to women which are, in fact, token gestures, conciliatory but not committed to equality. The 4-to-1 ratio has been replaced by the promise of a 2.5-to-1 ratio, but real dedication to an equal admissions policy still does not seem part of Harvard's picture of its future. Women are still treated as second class scholars at every level of the University. Though several women faculty members have been appointed this year, they will still account for only 1.9 per cent of all tenured appointments. Most...
President Bok cites the new 2.5-to-1 undergraduate ratio of men to women as "substantial progress." But the move simply does not demonstrate a clear commitment to the goal of equality for women within the University. Not only is the new ratio a shrewd financial step (it will increase tuition revenue with only insignificant outlay for new resources) but, as discussed elsewhere in this issue, it is a step designed to buy time from government, student, faculty and alumnae pressure for equal or sex-blind admissions...